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The Project Gutenberg eBook of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg ... |
HERMIA. So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord, Ere I will yield my virgin patent up Unto his lordship, whose unwishèd yoke My soul consents not to give sovereignty. THESEUS. Take time to pause; and by the next new moon The sealing-day betwixt my love and me For everlasting bond of fellowship, Upon that day either pr... |
Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass (A time that lovers’ flights doth still conceal), Through Athens’ gates have we devis’d to steal. HERMIA. And in the wood where often you and I Upon faint primrose beds were wont to lie, Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet, There my Lysander and myself shall meet, And t... |
BOTTOM. Well, I will undertake it. What beard were I best to play it in? QUINCE. Why, what you will. BOTTOM. I will discharge it in either your straw-colour beard, your orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain beard, or your French-crown-colour beard, your perfect yellow. QUINCE. Some of your French crowns have no hair... |
Full often hath she gossip’d by my side; And sat with me on Neptune’s yellow sands, Marking th’ embarkèd traders on the flood, When we have laugh’d to see the sails conceive, And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind; Which she, with pretty and with swimming gait Following (her womb then rich with my young squire), Wou... |
With a disdainful youth. Anoint his eyes; But do it when the next thing he espies May be the lady. Thou shalt know the man By the Athenian garments he hath on. Effect it with some care, that he may prove More fond on her than she upon her love: And look thou meet me ere the first cock crow. PUCK. Fear not, my lord, you... |
The will of man is by his reason sway’d, And reason says you are the worthier maid. Things growing are not ripe until their season; So I, being young, till now ripe not to reason; And touching now the point of human skill, Reason becomes the marshal to my will, And leads me to your eyes, where I o’erlook Love’s stories... |
Stay thou but here awhile, And by and by I will to thee appear. _ [_Exit. _] PUCK. A stranger Pyramus than e’er played here! [_Exit. _] THISBE. Must I speak now? QUINCE. Ay, marry, must you, For you must understand he goes but to see a noise that he heard, and is to come again. THISBE. _Most radiant Pyramus, most lily-... |
Mustardseed. BOTTOM. Good Master Mustardseed, I know your patience well. That same cowardly giant-like ox-beef hath devoured many a gentleman of your house. I promise you, your kindred hath made my eyes water ere now. I desire you of more acquaintance, good Master Mustardseed. TITANIA. Come, wait upon him; lead him to ... |
That must needs be sport alone; And those things do best please me That befall prepost’rously. Enter Lysander and Helena. LYSANDER. Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? Scorn and derision never come in tears. Look when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, In their nativity all truth appears. How can these th... |
Lysander, whereto tends all this? LYSANDER. Away, you Ethiope! DEMETRIUS. No, no. He will Seem to break loose. Take on as you would follow, But yet come not. You are a tame man, go! LYSANDER. Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! Vile thing, let loose, Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent. HERMIA. Why are you grown so ... |
And lead these testy rivals so astray As one come not within another’s way. Like to Lysander sometime frame thy tongue, Then stir Demetrius up with bitter wrong; And sometime rail thou like Demetrius. And from each other look thou lead them thus, Till o’er their brows death-counterfeiting sleep With leaden legs and bat... |
COBWEB. Ready. BOTTOM. Monsieur Cobweb; good monsieur, get you your weapons in your hand and kill me a red-hipped humble-bee on the top of a thistle; and, good monsieur, bring me the honey-bag. Do not fret yourself too much in the action, monsieur; and, good monsieur, have a care the honey-bag break not; I would be loa... |
Go, bid the huntsmen wake them with their horns. Horns, and shout within. Demetrius, Lysander, Hermia and Helena wake and start up. Good morrow, friends. Saint Valentine is past. Begin these wood-birds but to couple now? LYSANDER. Pardon, my lord. He and the rest kneel to Theseus. THESEUS. I pray you all, stand up. I ... |
ribbons to your pumps; meet presently at the palace; every man look o’er his part. For the short and the long is, our play is preferred. In any case, let Thisbe have clean linen; and let not him that plays the lion pare his nails, for they shall hang out for the lion’s claws. And most dear actors, eat no onions nor gar... |
You shall know all that you are like to know. THESEUS. This fellow doth not stand upon points. LYSANDER. He hath rid his prologue like a rough colt; he knows not the stop. A good moral, my lord: it is not enough to speak, but to speak true. HIPPOLYTA. Indeed he hath played on this prologue like a child on a recorder; a... |
HIPPOLYTA. I am aweary of this moon. Would he would change! THESEUS. It appears by his small light of discretion that he is in the wane; but yet, in courtesy, in all reason, we must stay the time. LYSANDER. Proceed, Moon. MOON All that I have to say, is to tell you that the lantern is the moon; I the man i’ the moon; t... |
Following darkness like a dream, Now are frolic; not a mouse Shall disturb this hallow’d house. I am sent with broom before, To sweep the dust behind the door. Enter Oberon and Titania with their Train. OBERON. Through the house give glimmering light, By the dead and drowsy fire. Every elf and fairy sp... |
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Again, if we confine our attention to the hero, and to those cases wherethe gross and palpable evil is not in him but elsewhere, we find thatthe comparatively innocent hero still shows some marked imperfection ordefect,--irresolution, precipitancy, pride, credulousness, excessivesimplicity, excessive susceptibility to ... |
Thetwo may be severed, but they need not be so, and where a genuinelypoetic result is being produced they cannot be so. The glow of a firstconception must in some measure survive or rekindle itself in the workof planning and executing; and what is called a technical expedient may'come' to a man with as sudden a glory a... |
' And Professor Dowdenexplains this condition by reference to Hamlet's life. 'When the playopens he has reached the age of thirty years . . . and he has receivedculture of every kind except the culture of active life. During thereign of the strong-willed elder Hamlet there was no call to action forhis meditative son. H... |
He at any rate will not delay. Onthe spot he determines to send Hamlet to England. But, as Polonius ispresent, we do not learn at once the meaning of this purpose. Evening comes. The approach of the play-scene raises Hamlet's spirits. He is in his element. He feels that he is doing _something_ towards hisend, striking ... |
She gives her husband afalse account of Polonius's death, and is silent about the appearance ofthe Ghost. She becomes miserable; To her sick soul, as sin's true nature is, Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss. She shows spirit when Laertes raises the mob, and one respects her forstanding up for her husba... |
But he was newly married; in the circumstanceshe cannot have known much of Desdemona before his marriage; and furtherhe was conscious of being under the spell of a feeling which can giveglory to the truth but can also give it to a dream. (3) This consciousness in any imaginative man is enough, in suchcircumstances, to ... |
Why did he act as we see him actingin the play? What is the answer to that appeal of Othello's: Will you, I pray, demand that demi-devil Why he hath thus ensnared my soul and body? This question Why? is _the_ question about Iago, just as the questionWhy did Hamlet delay? is _the_ question about Hamlet. Iago ref... |
When Lamb--there is no higherauthority--writes, 'A happy ending! --as if the living martyrdom thatLear had gone through, the flaying of his feelings alive, did not make afair dismissal from the stage of life the only decorous thing for him,'I answer, first, that it is precisely this _fair_ dismissal which wedesire for ... |
But on the way he has broken down and has been weeping (III. iv. 17),and now he resists Kent's efforts to persuade him to enter. He does notfeel the storm: when the mind's free The body's delicate: the tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats... |
Lear's words, Let pride, which she calls plainness, marry her! [183]are monstrously unjust, but they contain one grain of truth; and indeedit was scarcely possible that a nature so strong as Cordelia's, and withso keen a sense of dignity, should feel here nothing whatever of prideand resentment. This side of her ch... |
In either case not only was he free toaccept or resist the temptation, but the temptation was already withinhim. We are admitting too much, therefore, when we compare him withOthello, for Othello's mind was perfectly free from suspicion when histemptation came to him. And we are admitting, again, too much when weuse th... |
The noises before the murder, and duringit, are heard by her as simple facts, and are referred to their truesources. The knocking has no mystery for her: it comes from 'the southentry. ' She calculates on the drunkenness of the grooms, compares thedifferent effects of wine on herself and on them, and listens to theirsn... |
43); and the Porter's remarks about theequivocator who 'could swear in both the scales against either scale,who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate toheaven,' may be compared with the following dialogue (IV. ii. 45): _Son. _ What is a traitor? _Lady Macduff. _ Why, one t... |
_ V. iii. 40 (Warburton). (7) With Pyrrhusstanding like a painted tyrant cf. _Macb. _ V. viii. 25 (Delius). (8) Theforging of Mars's armour occurs again in _Tr. and Cr. _ IV. v. 255, whereHector swears by the forge that stithied Mars his helm, just as Hamlethimself alludes to Vulcan's stithy (III. ii. 89). (9) The idea... |
We must not suppose that Othello's account of his courtship in hisfamous speech before the Senate is intended to be exhaustive. He isaccused of having used drugs or charms in order to win Desdemona; andtherefore his purpose in his defence is merely to show that hiswitchcraft was the story of his life. It is no part of ... |
; II. ii. , except 194-204; in III. vi. Timon's verse speech; IV. i. ; IV. ii. 1-28; IV. iii. , except292-362, 399-413, 454-543; V. i. , except 1-50; V. ii. ; V. iv. I am notto be taken as accepting this division throughout. ]NOTE T. DID SHAKESPEARE SHORTEN _KING LEAR_? I have remarked in the text (pp. 256 ff. ) on the... |
_ 'Tis most convenient: pray you, go with us. _Gon. _ [_Aside_] O, ho, I know the riddle. --I will go. _As they are going out, enter_ EDGAR _disguised. _ _Edg. _ If e'er your grace had speech with man so poor, Hear me one word. _Alb. _ I'll overtake you. Speak.... |
63 | 2. 47 | 6. 10Henry VIII. , | 45 | 37 | 3. 93 | 3. 23 | 7. 16------------------------------------------------------------------------Now, let us turn to our four tragedies (with _Timon_). Here again wehave one doubtful play, and I give the figures for the whole of _Timon_,and... |
_3 Henry VI. _, 222, 418, 490, 492. _Henry VIII. _, 80, 472, 479. Heredity, 30, 266, 303. Hero, tragic, 7; of 'high degree,' 9-11; contributes to catastrophe, 12; nature of, 19-23, 37; error of, 21, 34; unlucky, 28; place of, in construction, 53-55; absence of, from stage, 57; in earlier and later plays, 81-2, ... |
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Shakespeare's Roman Plays and TheirBackground, by Mungo William MacCallumThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States andmost other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictionswhatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the termsof th... |
”But this programme conveys an impression of greater variety andabundance than is justified by the piece. In point of fact it beginsonly after the death of Antony, who does not intervene save as a ghostin the opening scene, to bewail his offences and announce that in adream he has bid Cleopatra join him before the day ... |
_Poppy. _ Thou hast reason; ergo, say I, ’tis better be a king than a clown. Faith, Master Sylla, I hope a man may now call ye knave by authority. Even more impertinent, because they violate the truth of character andmisrepresent an historical person, are some of the liberties Lodgetakes with Marius. Such is the ... |
”Plutarch, then, had already composed many disquisitions to commend hishumane and righteous ideas, and it was partly in the same didacticspirit that he seems to have written his _Parallel Lives_. At thebeginning of the _Life of Pericles_ he says: Vertue is of this power, that she allureth a mans minde presently t... |
The flow of the English is not so easy and transparent. On a time he went to angle for fish, and when he could take none, he was as angrie as could be, bicause Cleopatra stoode by. Wherefore he secretly commaunded the fisher men, that when he cast in his line, they should straight dive under the water, a... |
, Act III. ) allcompressed within the twenty-four hours allowed to a French tragedy,viz. within the interval between the night before the Ides of March andthe next afternoon or evening. [157][157] Cassius says at the end of the long opening scene of the series:“It is after midnight” (Act I. iii. 163). In the last scene... |
_ Trebonius doth desire you to o’er-read, At your best leisure, this his humble suit. _Artemidorus. _ O Caesar, read mine first, for mine’s a suit That touches Caesar nearer: read it, great Caesar. _Caesar. _ What touches us ourself shall be last served. ... |
That the superfine Brutus will not beguilty of extortion, but that Cassius may: and then Brutus will demandto share in the proceeds. All this distress and oppression are hisdoing, or at least the consequences of his deed, and he would wash hishands of these inevitable accompaniments. He would do this by usingCassius as... |
When Lepidus is ordered off on his errand, and Antony,secure in his superiority, explains his methods, Octavius listenssilent with just a hint of dissent, but we feel that he is learninghis lessons and will apply them in due time at his teacher’s expense. Already he appropriates the leadership. Before Philippi, Antony ... |
Gervinus tries to express thecontrast between the Antony of Plutarch and the Antony of Shakespeareby means of a comparison. “We are inclined,” he writes, “to designatethe ennobling transformation which the poet undertook by one word:he refined the crude features of Mark Antony into the character ofan Alcibiades. ” In a... |
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